Course Modules

Jayawardena, Janaki, Darshi Thoradeniya, and Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra. 2019. Modern History of Sri Lanka. Colombo: The Open University of Sri Lanka.

Book Chapters

Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi. 2023. “Protest and Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Sri Lanka.” In Democracy and Democratisation in Sri Lanka: Paths, Trends and Imaginations (Volume 2), Jayadeva Uyangoda (ed). Colombo: Vijitha Yapa, 253-297.

Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi. 2019. ‘Trends in Youth Radicalization in Sri Lanka’, in Trends in Youth Radicalization in South Asia, Gamini Keerawella (ed), Colombo: Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, pp. 47-64.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi and Sujit Sivasundaram. 2024. “Historical Vistas on Sri Lanka’s 2022 People’s Uprising.” History Workshop Journal 95 (Spring).

Hettiarachchi, Radhika and Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra. 2023. “Memoryscapes: The Evolution of Sri Lanka’s Aragala Bhoomiya as a People’s Space of Protest.” International Public History 6 (2).

Hemachandra, Samal V. 2017. ‘“Butterflies Taking Down Giants”: The Impact of Facebook on Regime Transformation in Sri Lanka.’ The South Asianist, 5 (1): 366–90.

Journals

Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi. 2023. “Gotagogama People’s University: An Experiment of an Alternative Intellectual Space.” LST Review: Aragalaya: The Politics of the Protest 31 (349): 44–51.

Wijesuriya, Lara and Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra. 2023. “The Aragalaya Online: A Sketch of the Political Role of Social Media.” LST Review: Aragalaya: The Politics of the Protest 31 (349): 33-43.

Working Papers

Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi. 2019. “Chandrakka: A Symbol of a Neglected Role in Female Rebels of the 1971 Revolt.” Working Paper Series. New Delhi: South Asian University. (Sinhala Translation of this was published as Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi. 2020. “Chandrakka: 71 Kerelle Keralikariniyange Amathaka Keru Bumikawa Pilibada Sankethayak.” In Pravada, 36 (September): 76-116. Colombo 07: Social Scientists Assosiation.

Book Reviews

Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi. 2022. “The Unwomanly Face of the 1971 Revolt”. in Polity, 10 (1): 125-127.

Hemachandra, Samal Vimukthi. 2020. “Nirmal Ranjith Dewasirige Lankawe Ithihasaya: Dhrushtiwadi Wicharayak Kruthiya Pilibada Wimarshanaya (A Review of Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri’s History of Sri Lanka: An Ideological Criticism).” In Patitha, 11: 301-310. Nugegoda, Sri Lanka: Vidarshana.

Hemachandra, Samal V. 2017. “Living in Sri Lanka in the Age of Horrorism.” In RCSS Journal: Post-Disciplinary Studies of Global Affairs, 1 (Janurary-December):62–64. Maharagama, Sri Lanka: Ahasa.